Mojo
Mostly harmless
I'm worried one of my wife's friend's husband will get into this. She just retired and her husband is about 10 years older, has health issues (he's obese and diabetic) and he sits at home all day reading the web. Apparently he's getting into a lot of far right wing doomsday websites and has starting talking about how "the balloon is going up" and they need to pull all their money out of banks, buy gold, etc, etc. She can't drag him away from the computer, that's all he wants to do all day. He won't even come out to have lunch with his own wife. He just sits and reads and stews. The wife was planning on a nice retirement: they have a nice small farm, horses, like to travel, etc. That doesn't seem likely now as things stand.
There's some obvious signs here of things like depression, etc. My immediate worry is that the husband will go from "buy gold" and buy into the entire paranoid worldview and risk their home and farm on some anti-tax nut scheme. I'm thinking I might want to pass her some info about the "Freeman" and anti-tax loons. thoughts?
(and my wife has already suggested she get him to a doctor for a checkup)
Send him here.